"Who would you dine with? Scott or Amundsen?" Malcolm Gladwell and Tim Harford in Discussion.
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 19 August 2022
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Malcolm Gladwell joins Tim Harford to discuss our recent three-part tale about the race to reach the South Pole. There's talk of imperial decline; the power of the underdog; why getting everything you want is actually a handicap; and limes... lots and lots of limes.
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| 0:00.0 | Pushkin |
| 0:07.0 | Wait, beware! |
| 0:10.8 | Ahead of you lie, yawning crevasses, rampaging killer whales and Malcolm Gladwell, bearing |
| 0:17.7 | spoilers. |
| 0:19.1 | You are about to hear a conversation about our epic Race to the South Pole Trilogy. |
| 0:24.7 | So before you do, please have a listen to the Trilogy itself, which should have arrived |
| 0:29.4 | in your cautionary tales podcast feed over the past few weeks. |
| 0:33.3 | I'll wait. |
| 0:34.3 | Don't worry. |
| 0:35.5 | Right, as you will now know, the Trilogy makes reference to Malcolm Gladwell's work. |
| 0:41.7 | Malcolm is of course the author of David and Goliath, the Bomber Mafia and other best |
| 0:46.7 | sellers, and the creator of the revisionist history podcast. |
| 0:51.5 | I was so excited when he agreed to come and talk about the South Pole Trilogy, why |
| 0:55.8 | Captain Scott's access to money and patrons turned out to be more recurse than a blessing, |
| 1:01.4 | what it cost rolled Ammonson to rip up the conventional rules of behaviour, and the astonishing |
| 1:06.3 | subplot in which absolutely everybody seemed to forget the scientific evidence and come |
| 1:11.0 | down with scurvy. |
| 1:12.7 | Now, I had assumed I'd be asking Malcolm about David and Goliath, but that is not how |
| 1:18.1 | it went down. |
| 1:19.5 | Malcolm had questions for me. |
| 1:21.5 | So many questions. |
| 1:22.5 | And I just loved trying to keep up with him. |
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